On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 06:49:53PM +0000, Darrell Ball wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 10:23 AM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [ovs-dev] RFC: Let's branch for 2.8 today > > I'd like to create branch-2.8 today in preparation for releasing OVS 2.8 > later in August. I sent the patch that would lead off the branch a few > minutes ago: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mail.openvswitch.org_pipermail_ovs-2Ddev_2017-2DAugust_336544.html&d=DwICAg&c=uilaK90D4TOVoH58JNXRgQ&r=BVhFA09CGX7JQ5Ih-uZnsw&m=EHRmZog9ZtlKH5MXuo4OklgP6dlm_pfMwfokiw2bXGk&s=udsL-1fyk8cB7_qe39p2Ua8qSMMWmIcBcWDmsjECPTg&e= > > > According to our published schedule, we should have create branch-2.8 at > the beginning of July, but we delayed to allow some more features to > enter the 2.8 release. There continue to be reasonable arguments along > these lines in favor of delaying branching further: > > * Many DPDK patches have been posted but are still under review > or awaiting application. > > I don’t see much problem for double commit as the baselines should be > identical. However, most DPDK folks are offline until late tonight > PST; can we give them a chance to be back online before branching ?
Waiting until Wednesday morning (US Pacific) isn't a problem for me. > I propose that we branch today, with the following further details: > > * Continue to apply patches that add features, that as of now > have already been posted and ready for review or iterating on > reviews, until approximately this Friday. > > For limited scope features, would be ok to allow a little longer, > maybe early next week ? OK. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
